Dhaka – The 6th round of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football begins on Tuesday at two separate venues across the country. Defending champions Dhaka Abahani Limited will play Arambagh Krira Shangha at 3pm at the Rofiq Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium…
Day: February 11, 2019
1st Div Hockey: Pabon scores 5 as Dilkusha crush Shantinagar 14-0
Dhaka – Dilkusha Sporting Club earned a massive 14-0 goal victory over Shantinagar Club in the Green Delta Insurance First Division Hockey League at the Maulana Bhashani National Stadium here on Monday. Dilkusha SC also managed a comfortable 6-0 goals…
BCL Football: Wari Club manage 1-0 win over Victoria SC
Dhaka – Old Horse Wari Club managed a 1-0 goal victory against Victoria Sporting Club in the Bangladesh Championship League (BCL) Football at the Bir Shreshtho Shaheed Shipahi Mohammad Mustafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur here on Monday. Nokrek scored the…
Young man narrates how TV show coexed him to kill in-law
Chattogram, Feb 11 (UNB) – A 22-year-old man, who killed his sister-in-law for refusing to give him money, confessed to investigators that he planned the murder watching Indian television series ‘Crime Patrol’ that narrates real-life stories of kidnappings and homicides.…
PM to open Karnaphuli Tunnel boring work Feb 24
Dhaka, Feb 11 (UNB) – Boring work on the Karnaphuli Tunnel will begin on February 24 next, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the excavation work of the Karnaphuli Tunnel…
1403 titles hit book fair in ten days
Dhaka, Feb 11 (UNB)- As many as 1,403 books have been published in the first 10 days of the ongoing Ekushey Book Fair. The number was 1,363 during the same period last year. With Monday’s publications, the total number of…
Saraswati idol vandalised in Narayanganj: 4 arrested
Narayanganj, Feb 11 (UNB) – Four youths were arrested on Monday for vandalising an idol of Hindu goddess Saraswati at Tingao village of Bandar Upazila. Police identified the youths as Sujon, 22, son of Abdul Karim Mia; Shafikul Islam, 25,…
5-year-old girl ‘gang-raped’ by teenagers in Panchagarh
Panchagarh, Feb 11 (UNB) – A 13-year-old boy was detained on Monday following the alleged gang rape of a five-year-old girl in Hakimpur Jendapara village in Debiganj Upazila. The accused is a resident of Jendapara village. Debiganj Police Station’s in-charge…
Hajj to cost minimum Tk 344 thousand this year
Dhaka, Feb 11 (UNB) – The cabinet on Monday approved the draft Hajj Package, 2019, fixing the minimum cost for a pilgrim at Tk 3,44,000, up by Tk 24,645 from the previous year under package- 2 of the government management.…
BNP wants credible Ducsu polls: Nazrul
Dhaka, Feb 10 (UNB) – BNP on Monday said it does not want the elections to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) to be held the way the national and local body ones were held. “We don’t want the Ducsu…
Rajshahi Zilla Parishad distributes Tk 6.80 lakh to uplift projects
Rajshahi Correspondent Rajshahi Zilla Parishad distributed cheques worth around Tk 6.80 lakh to various development projects here today. The parishad distributed cheques for the financial support and for infrastructure development purposes of various educational institutions, mosques, temple and eidgah of…
Fury at HIV data leak in conservative Singapore
Rico has lived with HIV for almost a decade, confiding in only a small number of people in socially conservative Singapore, fearful of the reaction. Last month, he got a phone call saying information about his condition had been published…
Emergency declared in Novaya Zemlya archipelago
The Novaya Zemlya archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean in the northern Russian Arkhangelsk region, has declared a state of emergency after dozens of polar bears ‘invaded’ human settlements. The Archangelsk governor and regional government said in a press release.…
Aishwarya turned down ‘Troy’!
If there is one star from the Indian Film Industry who has managed to make a mark in Hollywood as well, it is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The global star has always managed to pick up projects in Bollywood and Hollywood…
Ekushey book fair gains momentum
Culture Desk Amar Ekushey Book Fair wore a festive look today as thousands of enthusiastic book lovers turned the venue of the month-long event into an animated occasion . Hundreds of children crowded the Sishu Prahar, adding joyful cheers and…
Dhaka University student-union elections March 11
Dhaka, Feb 11 – The elections to Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) and its hall unions for 25 posts will be held on March 11. Chief Returning Officer Prof Mahfuzur Rahman announced the schedule of the election at 10:40…
Crucifying Julian Assange
By Chris Hedges What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt. Julian Assange’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been transformed into a little shop of…
5 BCL, Jubo League men killed in Khulna road crash
Khulna, Feb 11 – Five leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Juba League were killed in a collision between a truck and a private car on Rupsha bridge bypass road at Harintala in the city on Sunday night.…
Dhaka needs another push to eliminate leprosy: WHO envoy
Dhaka, Feb 11 (UNB) – Though Bangladesh has already achieved the leprosy elimination target, WHO Goodwill Ambassador Yohei Sasakawa thinks the country needs a further push with an all-out comprehensive approach to totally eliminate the world’s oldest disease from here.…
Lady Gaga wins 3 Grammys, Michelle Obama makes appearance
Los Angeles, Feb 11 (AP/UNB) — The Grammy Awards kicked off Sunday with a group of powerful women, including Michelle Obama and Lady Gaga, describing the role of music in their lives — a display that came a year after…
Nantes fans say final goodbye to Sala on day of mourning
Paris, Feb 11 (AP/UNB) — On a day of mourning for Emiliano Sala, Nantes players walked onto the field dressed all in black with Sala’s name on their backs as the crowd chanted for him over and over again. “La…
Life tax exemption for women with 4 or more kids in Hungary
Hungary, Feb 11 (AP/UNB) — Hungary’s government is greatly increasing financial aid and subsidies for families with several children, the country’s prime minister said Sunday. The measures announced by Viktor Orban during his “state of the nation” speech are meant…
Eden College Ex-principal found dead in city house
Dhaka, Feb 10 (UNB) – Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin, former principal of Eden Mohila College, was found dead at her residence in the city’s Elephant Road area on Sunday. Police recovered the body from her apartment at Sukanya Tower at night,…
Highest mobile malware infections in Bangladesh?
Dhaka, Feb 10 (UNB) – Bangladesh is on top of the countries having the risk of mobile malware infections with 35.91 percent of users being affected, according to a study. The study conducted by US-based Comparitech on 60 countries, however,…
US shutdown talks stall ahead of deadline
Talks between congressional Republicans and Democrats aimed at averting another US government shutdown have broken down without agreement. The negotiators were hoping for a deal by Monday to give Congress time to pass legislation by Friday, when last month’s federal…
Bd NGOs Network for Radio, Com in UN SDG Media Compact
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is among more than 39 media organizations from across the world that have come together to form a Global SDG Media Compact aimed at advancing awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals…
Saraswati Puja celebrated on RU campus
Rajshahi, Feb 10 – Saraswati Puja, the festival for worshiping Devi Saraswati, the Goddess of literature and culture of the Hindu community, was observed at Rajshahi University (RU) campus through socio-religious festivals and rituals on Sunday. Saraswati who is the…
AL announces 122 Upazila chairman candidates
Dhaka, Feb 10 – The ruling Awami League on Monday announced names of its 122 chairman candidates to contest the upcoming second phase of Upazila Parishad (UZ) elections scheduled to be held on March 18. Elections to 129 Upazila Parishads…
Dhaka wants safe zone in Rakhine for Rohingya repatriation
Dhaka, Feb 10 – Bangladesh has urged the world leaders to make an arrangement of safe zone in Rakhine state of Myanmar for the repatriation of the displaced Rohingya people as soon as possible. Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday…